July 16, 2024

Election

 Axios - Teamsters president Sean O'Brien delivered a fiery address to close out the first night of the Republican National Convention, castigating big businesses and corporate lobby groups for "waging a war against American workers" — and calling for labor law reform. O'Brien's speech stood out among the partisan lineup because he did not endorse former President Trump, yet the Teamsters leader got the most speaking time of the evening...

It's possible the Teamsters won't endorse either candidate, Reuters reported earlier on Monday...

Teamsters vice president at large John Palmer wrote a scorching condemnation of O'Brien's decision last week, urging him not to speak and outlining a raft of ways former president Trump and the GOP were anti-union.... Meanwhile, some conservatives weren't too pleased with O'Brien's speech. An anti-union group put up a billboards outside the convention calling O'Brien two-faced for engaging with Republicans.

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